From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 21:41:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3960E106566C for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrej@antiszoc.hu) Received: from mail.deployis.eu (mail.deployis.eu [217.20.135.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A970D8FC13 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:41:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=antiszoc.hu; s=default; h=Subject:To:From:Date; bh=sHhnaHCiGa3MqbI6EHvUBB9GUuOfTh5h3igD4xYZMAg=; b=JJogNeyZPb1lyjsUg5SexGcNs90mLrHH+0yNlEb2NhOWeu7pv3VgXGkNyACYcFHg1Qt5FGDH/zvFQ38evzErXraTb2Nu2CCX/yRSeTHmuqzKn+Ou1FUK/UpZ1FQLZ0bS; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35814 helo=mail.deployis.eu) by mail.deployis.eu with esmtp (Exim 4.71 #1 (Debian)) id 1RGHPT-0000K5-BZ from for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:41:19 +0200 Received: from pool-233-3.ippark.hu ([31.223.233.3]) by mail.deployis.eu with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:41:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:41:19 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= To: In-Reply-To: <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu> Message-ID: <28d550f679ed7c420a78edff8c53e3a7@antiszoc.hu> X-Sender: andrej@antiszoc.hu User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2.1 X-DKIM-Status: None (from 127.0.0.1) X-Mail-Status-postahivatal: trustedmail (from 127.0.0.1) X-Spam-Score-postahivatal: -47 Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:41:22 -0000 On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200, Gót András wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:15:26AM +0200, G??t Andr??s wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote: >>> >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, G??t Andr??s >>> >wrote: >>> >>Dear All, >>> >> >>> >>I'd like to install FreeBSD onto az IBM X3550 M3 which looks >>> >>like UEFI only. >>> >>Is it possible to have FreeBSD amd64 get working on it or should >>> >>I forget >>> >>it? :( >>> > >>> >Will it do traditional MBR boot by any chance? As a last resort >>> >workaround, it might be possible to take its hard drive to another >>> >system and install grub which will boot FreeBSD but supports EFI. >>> > >>> >(We should implement EFI on amd64 by the way). >>> > >>> >Cheers, >>> >>> Take the hard drive out is not really an option because of the >>> M5014 >>> HW RAID and the SAS backplane. :) >>> >>> Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I >>> think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in >>> the evening. >> >> It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a >> RAID >> controller to boot from one of its underlying drives. I guess >> there's >> only one way to find out... ;-) > > The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the > initial disk group and volume group config on it. :) > Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able > got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with > Linux. > > For the record. I also found something about someone couldn't even > boot Windows Server install CD on this machine and he had to update > to > firmware. There's also something about OpenBSD that went with a clean > install, but after the it freezes randomly. > > Andras Thank you for all the tips. Fortunately it turned out to be simple. Finally, I got an USB DVD drive from my father and that made the trick. Memstick image or unetbootin pendrive installs won't work as it looks like. However, if I can help with testing memstick images I can do it until Oct 25. The unfortunate is that there not a single error about the memstick, it simply doesn't work. I also tried Ubuntu Lucid CD image written (with startup disk creator) to a pendrive and that also worked. First I tried 9-BETA3, but that failed with cannot mount root error. (Sorry I couldn't save the exact error message.) Then I thought I'll give a try to the 8.2-RELEASE. That worked out of the box with the RAID card and everything. The next big question is how easily will I install the 2 146GB disks that were left off the package. :) I'm going to find out it on Friday evening. Regards, Andras Andras